Author Guidelines

EDITING PROCESS

In order to publish, you need to send your work to the email ricsh@cenid.org.mx in extensive Word format.

RICSH publishes research articles in Spanish, English and Portuguese that have not been previously published. They clearly and precisely report the results of an investigation, the purpose of which is to provide information that contributes to the educational development or the area of ??knowledge in which it is applied. The context of the work (findings from the existing literature) and the choice of methods should be clear in the text. Quantitative, qualitative or mixed approaches are equally accepted. All manuscripts must make it clear how the findings advance the understanding of the subject studied.

Types of contributions

Article: Result of a complete and original investigation. The text is recommended to have a maximum of 30 pages, including tables, figures and bibliography. Note: Review of novel contributions based on current debates presented in congresses, forums, seminars, academic and political meetings, both national and international. The complete text may not exceed 10 pages.

Essay: Critical, analytical and documented contribution of the current state of knowledge on a topic. It must contain novel, unpublished contributions and clearly differentiated personal interpretations. Manuscripts without bibliographic references are not accepted in RICSH. The maximum length will be 20 pages.

Preparation of manuscripts

1. The limit on the length of the article is recommended to be 30 pages.
2. In the section corresponding to the first page, write down the following information:
3. a) Title of the manuscript in Spanish and English.
4. b) Full name of each author.
5. c) Institutional affiliation (s) of each author without abbreviations or acronyms.
6. d) Email information for each author.
7. e) Short title of no more than 20 characters, for use as a page header.
8. In the corresponding section include the Summary (Spanish and English), which must be written in the past tense, third person, and without exceeding 500 words. It should fully reflect the content of the manuscript. For research reports and systematic reviews, the abstracts should be structured in five sections: Introduction, Objective, Method, Results (expressed quantitatively if possible) and Conclusions. At the end include up to five keywords (Spanish and English) that help for indexing.
9. In the section corresponding to the main text, the sections of the text should be clearly marked with headings. The sections of the research papers are: Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion, Conclusions and Contributions to Future Lines of Research, exceptionally there may be variations at the discretion of the authors depending on the type of work and its design. It is necessary to include in the Discussion the limitations of the study, its strengths and areas of weakness.
10. Section of tables and figures: a) Tables must be created in Word (using the table function), and must be written in a closed line (one space), likewise, for the use of equations it must be reflected with the Word tools (images will not be accepted) . The title of each table must be understandable regardless of the manuscript and must have a title, numbering and source. b) All photographs, graphs, diagrams and diagrams must be referred to as Figures and be in .png format, and numbered consecutively in the text with Arabic numerals (eg Figure 2).
11. Regarding References, the authors are responsible for their correctness and completeness. The style will be in accordance with APA 7th Edition standards. There is no numbering of bibliographic references, the arrangement must be in strict alphabetical order. There are no separations by type of source consulted. The minimum number of references is 15 sources. Any unpublished sources and personal communications should not be included as references, but should be noted in the text of the manuscript in parentheses, at the end of the sentence they support.
12. Keep a copy of the final version of the manuscript that you send to the journal, for reference during the follow-up of the review process. An email will be sent to you as an acknowledgment of receipt of the manuscript and you will be kept informed of the process and the final decision by the same means.
13. The manuscript must be 1.5 lines, justified, 12 point Times New Roman font, with margins of at least 2.5 cm in letter size. Avoid using unconventional abbreviations, if necessary describe them when using them for the first time. Scientific units must be expressed in the International System of Units. Before submitting the manuscript, please remove the fields from computer programs to automate references and deactivate the "change control" of the word processor.
14. To add symbols to the script, use the Insert ? Symbol function in your word processor or paste the appropriate Unicode character.
15. Limit the sections and sub-sections of the manuscript to 3 levels of heading. Make sure the heading levels are clearly indicated in the text of the manuscript.
16. Define the abbreviations in the first appearance in the text. Do not use non-standard abbreviations unless they appear at least three times in the text. Keep abbreviations to a minimum.

Manuscript organization

Manuscripts should be organized as follows. Instructions for each item appear below the list.

Start section

• Title page: Title of the manuscript, authors, affiliation institution, email as the first page of the manuscript
• Summary and Keywords
• Introduction

Intermediate Section

• Materials and methods
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusions Future lines of research

Final Section

Acknowledgment

References

Support information as support (Annexes, if required)

Once the manuscript has approved the final opinion of the peer review by the evaluation committee, the author must cover the publication fee:

No. of Authors          Fee (mexican pesos)

         1                     $6,000
         2                     $10,500
         3                     $13,500
         4                     $17,500
         5                     $20,500 

If you are an active higher level student, you do not have to cover the publication fee.